World Bank to increase support to Ebola affected West African Countries

The World Bank Group has announced that it will increase its support to 400 million dollars to help the worst-affected Ebola hit countries.

This is to help build stronger health systems for the years ahead.

It also represents Ebola 170 million dollars in new funding.

The World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim told a special session on the Ebola crisis at the United Nations today that said the World Bank will put 230 million dollars toward the emergency response and 170 million dollars for medium to and long-term projects.

The new resources which the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors will consider in the coming weeks will also be targeted at rapidly increasing the health care work force and purchasing needed supplies in order to bring care and treatment to all parts of the affected countries.

Mr Yong Kim said the global community is now responding with the urgency and the scale needed to begin to tackle the Ebola crisis.

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